Electric vehicle (EV) battery start-up Britishvolt, which has the ambitious plan to build a recycling gigafactory in the U.K., has secured a £40 million (US$54 million) cornerstone investment from partner…
Lithium spot prices in Chinese markets showed substantial gains in the first week after the lunar new year holidays in East Asia, mainly driven by sustained supply tightness in spot…
KoBold Metals, a start-up backed by a coalition of billionaires including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, has raised $192.5 million in its latest financing round, which will allow it to speed…
Miner and commodities trader Glencore (LSE: GLEN) has tied up with electric vehicle (EV) battery start-up Britishvolt to build a new plant to recycle lithium-ion batteries in the United Kingdom….
Canada’s Rock Tech Lithium (TSXV: RCK) and Germany’s Bilfinger SE will work together on building Europe’s first lithium converter and refinery, in a push to meet the region’s increasing demand…
De Beers, the world’s top diamond producer by value, saw production jump in the last quarter of 2021 by 15% to 7.7 million carats, as it boosted production to meet…
Anglo American (LSE: AAL) says it expects to churn out between 680,000 and 760,000 tonnes of copper in 2022, as its giant Quellaveco mine in Peru is slated to begin…
Chilean miner Antofagasta (LSE: ANTO) is expecting annual copper production for 2022 to be below last year’s levels, as operations continue to be impacted by the country’s longest drought in…
Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s oil powerhouses, boasting the second-largest proven reserve of the slick stuff. Still, as the inaugural Future Minerals Forum recently held in Riyadh heard,…
Although there is still a way to go for electric vehicles to close the performance, safety, and cost gap with internal combustion engines, a recent report by IDTechEx says some…
There is one aspect of geology that makes even us mining engineers sit up and take notice, namely the relationship it has with whisky. I edited an article on the…
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) has picked outgoing Canadian ambassador to China and veteran management consultant Dominic Barton to lead its board as the miner tries to…
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